Claudia Pavlovich Arellano

Claudia Pavlovich Arellano (17 June 1969-) was Governor of Sonora from 13 September 2015, succeeding Guillermo Padres Elias. She was a member of the social democratic Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Biography
Claudia Pavlovich Arellano was born in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico on 17 June 1969; her father came from a family of Serbs. She graduated from the faculty of law at the University of Sonora, and she served as a city councillor of Hermosillo from 2000 to 2003 before serving in the Senate from 2006 to 2009. In 2015, she was elected Sonora's first female governor as an Institutional Revolutionary Party politician; she was criticized after she was recorded asking businessmen for favors in exchange for money during the campaign.